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In article <1993Jan7.151946.16693@amc.com>, reb@amc.com (Bob Brunjes) writes:
# In article <1i9p52INNcbi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bz269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James D. Del Vecchio) writes:
# #1)  How does a designer retard the rate of fire in a SMG?
# 
# By making the bolt heavier, or int the case of the 1928 Thompson, using
# some sort of bronze-wedge bolt retarding system.  I've never seen one of
# these stripped, and I'm told the mechanism may not really slow the
# firing rate.

William J. Helmer's _The Gun That Made The Twenties Roar_, (Toronto,
The Macmillan Co.: 1969) goes into considerable discussion of how
the wedge didn't really do anything, but it was such a neat design
and patent that Gen. Thompson wasn't willing to discard it, even
though it increased the manufacturing cost and complexity of the
gun.  This was one of the improvements made by the U.S. military
during the WW II production of the Thompson.

# Bob Brunjes		Applied Microsystems Corp

Don't be fooled by the title of Helmer's book.  It is a fascinating
social history as well as technological history, and is a revision of
Helmer's M.A. (in History) thesis.
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